From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 11:38:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DC35106566B for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BB588FC08 for ; Thu, 17 May 2012 11:38:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedlingblack-earthcouk.local ([195.53.238.218]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4HBbxe6047686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 17 May 2012 12:38:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q4HBbxe6047686 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q4HBbxe6047686; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host [195.53.238.218] claimed to be seedlingblack-earthcouk.local Message-ID: <4FB4E30D.1050007@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 13:37:49 +0200 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Barnes References: <52D7F093B01E482CA87C17CB845044B7@HP31024769640> In-Reply-To: <52D7F093B01E482CA87C17CB845044B7@HP31024769640> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig04A08D0C1F75F8F8D9BC8355" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_XBL, RDNS_NONE,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: KPPP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 11:38:26 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig04A08D0C1F75F8F8D9BC8355 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 17/05/2012 08:27, Peter Barnes wrote: > I would like to use BSD but I use KPPP to connect to my ISP. Is > anyone working on KPPP to include it with BSD? According to > Distrowatch no BSD O/S's have KPPP KPPP is just a KDE-based GUI wrapper around the OS provided PPP functionality. At a guess, the only reason it isn't available on FreeBSD is that FreeBSD pppd uses different configuration syntax to Linux, and no-one has yet written appropriate support. However, it is perfectly possible to configure PPP on FreeBSD without such aids. As ever, the Handbook is your friend: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ppp-and-slip.ht= ml Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig04A08D0C1F75F8F8D9BC8355 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+04xQACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwFowCfZy5WC7LZ/ahcUqmzlxkqQBhD ywoAn3Fn9i7nynXmEj0BaEdIzdE0STAK =TAtR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig04A08D0C1F75F8F8D9BC8355--